Show 4 1 7 LIVING CONSERVATION According to a timber industry official per cent of the commercial forest land in in the 12 western states is government owned and use single-use withdrawals of lan land Ian of wilderness wilderness wilder wilder- ness In hi the West now amount to over 9 9 zillion million acres with another 45 million in all aU sections of the United States' States productive la lan 1 land live either fo for wood prod or for food out put put put-Is is disappearing beneath the metropolitan tan t sprawl or behind the borders of use single recreation areas For a long time now the available land for food and fiber production has been while our population has been soaring This deadly converging of courses courses courses cours cours- es es between betwee land and population must inevitably inevitably ably have a meeting point Admittedly food output and rise high-rise apartments spy ap- on the same land are an incompatible ible proposition Such Is is not the case ase with timberlands t and wll wilderness erl afe s. s Major ber compa companies es have been urging multiple use wherever feasible of the nations nation's f forest rest land lands lands- and they are practicing what they pre preach ch Millions of acres' acres of private timberlands timberlands timber timber- lands are open to public use for recreation Leaders in the timber industry have also become become be be- come a great deal like the modern farmer They are making every acre of land produce more trees just as the farmer has stepped up food production per acre Major timber Umber companies have developed what what is called Salle yield high forestry This involves in forest soil cultivation helicopter fertilization replanting of off logged areas with s tree selective tree selective stock and thinning of new stands o of timber a at just the right time Scientific land and forest r. management under the the multi use pie c concept might well be ca called called ed living ving conservation conservation |